pretty entire, and ferves at prefent for a Prefbyterian kirk j a change, perhaps 
no lefs diftant from its original deftination, than any other which thefe building s 
are fated to undergo. 
St. Bar , Bifhop of Caithnefs, in the eleventh century, was the firft who conful £e ^ 
the chief place of divine fervice in his diocefe to be at Dornoch, and therefo re 
caufed a very fumptuous church to be built there ; and houfes erefled for 
clergy who fhould minifter in it. Adjoining to thefe. Sir Patrick Murray, toward 5 
the end of the 13th century, or between the years 1270 and 1280, eftablifhed 3 
monaftery of Trinity Friars ; and it was about the fame time, or foon after, £ fi 3 c 
Gilbert Murray, Bifhop of Caithnefs, caufed the lofty Cathedral to be built, who^ e 
ruins ftill indicate its ancient magnificence. 
Tradition fays, that about the fame time a brother of Bifhop Murray's, fell? 3t 
the head of a chofen band of men, when repelling a body of Norwegians or 
who had landed to pillage the country ; that a monument of him was placed fl ear 
the font, in the eaft aile of the Cathedral. In that place there is ftill lying in 
earth, a mutilated, but well-carved figure of a warrior, in alto relievo , which ha c 
formed the lid of a ftone coffin, which was the moft honourable mode of fepultu re 
at that time, and is therefore, no doubt, the monument of the General Mur^H 
alluded to. 
Many ftones, with curious carvings on them, are fcattered in thofe parts, 
which a fpecimen is given in the plate. 
